David Maisel: Black Maps

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Black Maps is the first in-depth survey of the major aerial projects by David Maisel, whose images of radically altered terrain have transformed the practice of contemporary landscape photography. In more than 100 photos that span Maisel's career, Black Maps presents a hallucinatory worldview encompassing both stark documentary and tragic metaphor, and exploring the relationship between nature and humanity today. Maisel's images of environmentally impacted sites consider the aesthetics of open pit mines, clear-cut forests, rampant urbanization and sprawl, and zones of water reclamation. These surreal and disquieting photos take us towards the margins of the unknown and as the Los Angeles Times has stated, argue for an expanded definition of beauty, one that bypasses glamour to encompass the damaged, the transmuted, the decomposed.

Hardcover: 237 pages

Publisher: Steidl; y First edition edition (April 28, 2013)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 3869305371

ISBN-13: 978-3869305370

Product Dimensions: 11.5 x 1.2 x 11.8 inches

Shipping Weight: 5.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

Best Sellers Rank: #904,204 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #170 in Books > Arts & Photography > Photography & Video > Individual Photographers > Artists' Books #447 in Books > Arts & Photography > Individual Artists > Artists' Books #614 in Books > Arts & Photography > Photography & Video > Individual Photographers > Monographs

Another amazing book from probably the only published artist that can record Earth's environmental degradation with such poignant beauty.

Stunning, beautiful ... disturbing and sad.

Awesome book! quick delivery, all good... friend saw book and bought same - photographer is incredibly amazing - I want to go see those places

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